Minoan Wall Painting of Pseira, Crete : A Goddess Worshipped in the Shrine

by: Jones, B.

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 Minoan Wall Painting of Pseira, Crete: A Goddess Worshipped in the Shrine

Dr. Bernice Jones

Description
This study presents evidence for restoring the fragmentary painting from Pseira. It argues against previous reconstructions, finding errors including ignoring the fragments? scales. With the fragments? scales accurately recorded, the study reveals a large-scale goddess facing a smaller suppliant in a presentation scene on an incurved altar platform. The reconstruction is based on examinations, drawings, and photographs taken to scale of the fragments and digital imaging. The painted garments are translated into modern cloth replicas that adorn live models that pose as goddess and suppliant. Virtually restored to the east wall of Room 6, the goddess positively establishes the building already conjectured as a shrine and identifies it as the religious center of the community. The painting?s Knossian style and technique, and imported Knossian ritual vessels, argue for a strong Knossian religious presence at Pseira. Knossian style religious processions likely culminated at the shrine to present offerings to the goddess.
Introduction; 1. History and Previous Reconstructions of the Painted Plaster Relief Fragments; 2. New Reconstruction of the Painted Plaster Relief Fragments; 3. Translating the Painted Garments into Cloth Replicas; 4. Knossian Presence at Pseira; 5. Religion and Ritual at Pseira; Conclusions; References; Index

Paperback: 116pp., 97 figures in the text (INSTAP Academic Press, 2024)

ISBN 978-1-931534-39-0

List of Figures ..................................................................ix

List of Abbreviations .........................................................xv

Acknowledgments ..........................................................xvii

Introduction .....................................................................1

1. H istory and Previous Reconstructions of the Painted Plaster Relief Fragments ..........................................................7

2. New Reconstruction of the Painted Plaster Relief Fragments .....27

The Seated Figure .........................................................29

The Standing Figure ......................................................31

3. Translating the Painted Garments into Cloth Replicas .............41

4. Knossian Presence at Pseira .............................................49

The Painted Plaster Relief Fragments ..................................49

Vessels ......................................................................51

5. Religion and Ritual at Pseira ............................................59

Priestess(es) in the Shrine ...................................................59

Communal Relations with the Shrine. ................................68

6. Conclusions ................................................................77

References ....................................................................81

Index ..........................................................................91

Vatikanische Museen, Museo Gregoriano Profano ex Lateranense: Katalog der Skulpturen Band I/1 & Katalog der Skulpturen Band I/2 & Katalog der Skulpturen Band II/1 & Katalog der Skulpturen Band III & Katalog der Skulpturen Band IV

by: Sinn, Fr. Freyberger, K.S. Vorster, Chr. Fless, Fr. Langer, S. Liverani, P. Pfanner, M.

• Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 

Price: 459,00 EURO

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Minoan Wall Painting of Pseira, Crete : A Goddess Worshipped in the Shrine

by: Jones, B.

• ISBN-13: 9781931534390 / 978-1-931534-39-0
• ISBN-03: 193153439X / 1-931534-39-X
• INSTAP Academic Press, , 2024

Price: 42,00 EURO

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The Nature of classical collecting: Collectors and Collections, 100 BCE-100 CE

by: Bounia, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780754600121 / 978-0-7546-0012-1
• ISBN-03: 0754600122 / 0-7546-0012-2
• Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2004

Price: 104,00 EURO

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